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They are all private companies. They are free to choose who to do business with. If Parler broke the ToS, then there's even more reason for Amazon/Apple/Google
by jcliffio 6y ago
They are all private companies. They are free to choose who to do business with. If Parler broke the ToS, then there's even more reason for Amazon/Apple/Google to cut ties.
- xvector 6y agoFacebook, Twitter, and Reddit all break Amazon/Apple/Google TOS pretty clearly and yet are still allowed to exist. Clearly, Parler has been singled out by Big Tech. I can’t be the only one here actually concerned about Big Tech being the ultimate arbiter of truth and information. AWS is effectively public infrastructure at this point and must be treated as such unless you want to careen into a corporate dystopia where the only information you receive is information Big Tech finds acceptable.
- jcliffio 6y agoHow are they an arbiter of truth? They host tens of thousands of sites that I'm sure they don't necessarily agree with but they're more than happy to take the money of. They singled this one out because they don't want the publicity of their platform being associated with a company that has no problem with users coordinating violent and deadly insurrections...
- xvector 6y ago> How are they an arbiter of truth? Because they ban politically inconvenient viewpoints. > their platform being associated with a company that has no problem with users coordinating violent and deadly insurrections... Does Twitter not host the leaders of terroristic regimes? Has Reddit not been implicated in murder of innocents? Does Facebook not routinely have calls to violence? All major platforms have broken AWS TOS countless times, and much more often than Parler at that. It’s pretty clear that Parler is being singled out here, and that breaking the AWS TOS is a flimsy excuse at best.